Robert Lewandowski scored twice and Lamine Yamal piled on to spoil Kylian Mbappé’s first Clásico as Barcelona routed Actual Madrid 4-0 on Saturday.
Barcelona ended Madrid’s overwhelmed run in La Liga at 42 video games by dealing Carlo Ancelotti’s facet its first loss since Sept. 23 final yr.
Lewandowski scored from an outstanding cross by Barcelona’s newest youth expertise Marc Casadó within the 54th minute and headed in a second objective three minutes later to silence Santiago Bernabéu Stadium.
These have been targets sixteenth and seventeenth general for the Poland striker this season, taking his league-best tally to 14. He additionally hit the submit.
Yamal made it a rout within the 77th when the teenage phenom rifled a shot from an angle over goalkeeper Andriy Lunin. Raphinha received concerned within the burgundy-and-blue celebration when he broke free with Madrid urgent ahead and chipped Lunin within the 84th.
Mbappé had a irritating first sport towards Barcelona in a white shirt.
The France star was repeatedly caught offside by Barcelona’s synchronized again 4 and didn’t beat second-choice goalkeeper Iñaki Peña one-on-one along with his workforce down two targets.
Hansi Flick, in the meantime, had an evening to recollect within the first clasico for the German coach.
Barcelona nonetheless has monetary troubles that forged doubt over its future however its workforce has made big steps ahead since Flick changed Barcelona nice Xavi Hernández in the summertime.
Barcelona opened a six-point lead on the prime of La Liga over second-placed Madrid after 11 rounds.
“We had a troublesome week with robust video games, however we knew easy methods to pull it out. We performed an awesome sport,” Casadó, an unknown reserve workforce participant till Flick picked him to be his holding midfielder, mentioned after his spectacular outing.
Casadó was considered one of 5 homegrown gamers that Flick put in his beginning lineup, the identical 11 that beat Bayern Munich 4-1 within the Champions League three days earlier than. A complete of six gamers below 22 years outdated began for Barcelona, led by 17-year-olds Yamal and Pau Cubarsí, and confirmed no indicators of being intimidated by the situation.
Yamal upstaged Mbappé this summer time when Spain beat France en path to profitable the European Championship, and he did it once more when he displayed the final touch that Mbappé was missing.
Mbappé himself was dominated offside at least 5 occasions within the first half hour, as Barcelona pressed excessive up the sphere. Vinícius Júnior, who featured in a captivating duel with Cubarsí, missed a golden probability within the twenty first when he shot previous the submit from shut.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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